Bromley Mountain AT/LT September Hike

November Mt Ascutney Walk

December Mt Ascutney Walk

Char Siu Recipe Testing

I love Char Siu!  That delicious boneless roast pork that you get in the finer Chinese restaurants. The cheap takeout restaurants try to make their own version which is known as boneless spareribs, but the real deal is mouthwatering life experience. You can make this at home. There are recipes on the Internet and on YouTube that will show you how to make the most wonderful  Char Siu ever.

 For the past couple of years I have been making a recipe that is posted on YouTube by Ci Ci Li.  It is a simple easy to make recipe and the young lady in the video explains how to do it very well. I have brought the results of this recipe to work a couple of times and people have just crazed how wonderful it is.

I decided to try another recipe this week by Mike from Strictly Dumpling. His YouTube channel does a wonderful job of selling the excitement that a meal can give you he is very animated and he makes you want to make what he is making, which is a very nice talent.

The recipe can be found at: https://youtu.be/VH0X7cDJIqw

This was a hit in my house, many thanks to Mike!

Tennessee Vacation

Breakfast Banchan Stir fried Potatoes

On Mount Ascutney

First Overnight on Vermont's Long Trail

Hedgehog Mountain Hike July 29, 2018

Stuff I Cook...Flank Steak Pinwheels

so I was trying to decide what to cook.  In the fridge I hade a flank steak I 5awed a few days ago. Naturally I was thinking Asian. I wanted to see what others might marinade bier flank steak in. One person was boasting a genuine Carne Asada. While it literally means “grilled meat” it is a  a Mexican and Central American dish of grilled and sliced beef, usually arrachera, sirloin steak, tenderloin steak or rib steak, that is charred enough so as to bring the char into the flavor.

But I then stumbled upon a quick YouTube video of Katie Brown the craft girl on public tv.She was making flank steak pinwheels. I decided to try them. She was using basil but I wasn’t listening and bought baby spinach.

Saturday night kind of mess....

J

Put that in your YouTube and smoke it..... I mean that supportively

Thank you YouTube,you just saved me a ton of investigative work. The snow has got to melt sometime...if new snow ever stops falling.  So the mad dash for gearing up is well under way in 2018. We have to backpack this year with all of this investing going on.  But what about food? I have plenty of books that tell you how to make Trail meals. But those do not really have practical application in their entirety. There is a 10% return Factor on those things, and which you can apply something that you learn from them into something that you were doing. But that is about it. So we cannot all afford Mountain House meals for every meal as they average about $10 a meal. So last year when I bombed out with Lipton and knor pasta sides, I wondered what to do next. Should I dehydrate all my own food? Should I find something else? Thankfully I found good instructions and cooking the times are adjusted to cozy cooking times. I also learned the cozy cooking almost never works with noodle sides, but does with rice sides.

So I tried it. The Rice Side said to cook 7 minutes. I boiled a cup of water, then dumped that and half of the pasta side into my Coleman cookpot, added brocolli I dehydrated and covered with my double pot cozy. Let sit for 14 minutes (double the package instructions) and then dropped cut up spam cubes in with it. Let sit in the cozy for 4 more minutes. This was the final outcome and it was delicious, aside from needing a little black pepper. I can tell you it was definitely everything a mountain house meal would be. Texture was perfect.